{"id":900020,"date":"2026-09-18T04:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T04:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:34:11","slug":"resident-evil-box-office-zach-cregger-reboot-movie-eyes-big-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900020\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil Box Office: Zach Cregger Reboot Movie Eyes Big Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tResident Evil<\/a> looks to get off to a running start in its opening weekend at the box office<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tSony Pictures<\/a> releases writer-director Zach Cregger<\/a>\u2018s horror-survival video game adaptation on Friday in roughly 3,500 North American theaters, with the studio projecting a debut frame of $40 million for the three-day weekend. This is in line with third-party tracking services, although some of those have upped their expectations in recent days as interest heats up, with the possibility that the opening gets close to $50 million or higher. It carries a $75 million production budget. <\/p>\n

\n\tA launch of $40 million would give the new Resident Evil the distinction of the highest-grossing opening in the history of the franchise. The series\u2019 previous titles have collectively grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide. <\/p>\n

\n\tHailing from TriStar Pictures, Constantin Film and Davis Film, Resident Evil stars Austin Abrams<\/a>, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser in the story of a medical courier (Abrams) attempting to deliver a precious item in the midst of a deadly viral outbreak in Raccoon City. The movie looks to continue the hot streak for Cregger, whose most recent release was Warner Bros.\u2019 Oscar-winning horror film Weapons, which hit theaters last summer, and before that was his well-received Barbarian. <\/p>\n

\n\tResident Evil reboots the film franchise adapting Capcom\u2019s video game series that launched in 1996. The first live-action feature adaptation came with director Paul W.S. Anderson\u2019s 2002 movie Resident Evil, with the Milla Jovovich-led project opening to $17.7 million domestically and going on to surpass $100 million globally throughout its run. Jovovich starred in five sequels before Kaya Scodelario led the 2021 reboot attempt Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, which underperformed at the box office.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDirector Zach Cregger (right) and Austin Abrams on the set of Resident Evil.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDu\u0161an Martin\u010dek\/Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the Resident Evil movies have not been known as critical darlings, the latest one is a very different story, as it holds an eye-popping 96 percent approval rating from reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes. In his review for The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, critic Frank Scheck noted that Cregger \u201ccrafted a propulsive, simultaneously terrifying and hilarious thrill ride that showcases both his cinematic chops and perverse sense of humor.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Cregger, he told THR<\/a> at the Los Angeles premiere that he had high hopes for the movie\u2019s reception. \u201cI felt pretty confident,\u201d the director said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see. Maybe I\u2019m delusional, but I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019ve seen the movie, and I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis should provide more of a jolt to the early days of fall than the previous frame, which saw Warner Bros.\u2019 Practical Magic 2<\/a> take the top spot in a subdued debut<\/a> that ended the six-weekend winning streak for Sony\u2019s Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Earlier this week, the Tom Holland-led Spidey movie swung its way to No. 1<\/a> on the all-time domestic chart, toppling Star Wars: Episode VII \u2014 The Force Awakens.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso opening in wide release is stop-motion animated sequel Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, hitting theaters stateside from GKIDS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resident Evil looks to get off to a running start in its opening weekend at the box office.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40253,6471,49,48,75,337,8471,38309,311442,989,14159],"class_list":["post-900020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-austin-abrams","tag-box-office","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-practical-magic-2","tag-resident-evil","tag-screen-gems","tag-sony-pictures","tag-zach-cregger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}